Helldivers 2 gamers have found a fairly incredible bug that forestalls them from taking fall injury — and the brand new CEO of developer Arrowhead needs it to remain.
As surfaced by redditor Chunke-Funke-Monke, Helldivers 2 emoting really reduces fall injury. It’s true: carry out an emote when you’re falling from a top you’d usually die from and you will scale back the injury you’d usually take and survive.
Why does this occur? The concept is that Helldivers 2 applies its physics mannequin to fall injury because it does throughout the sport. That is, the sport works out which a part of your physique you’ve landed on and determines injury accordingly. It is sensible! A bang on the top might be going to be deadly, however you would possibly survive a bang in your butt… simply.
Helldivers 2 doesn’t allow you to change your orientation as you fall by the air, however if you happen to emote whereas doing so that you pressure your character mannequin to reposition into the emote pose, thus altering the a part of you that hits the bottom first. Genius!
This is genuinly helpful in a sport full of explosions that always ship your Helldiver hurtling throughout the map. And so, Helldivers 2 has a brand new meta: utilizing emotes to forestall fall injury. Now that’s a twist Super Earth didn’t see coming.
You’d suppose Arrowhead would wish to patch this one out (I doubt it’s supposed gameplay), however new CEO Shams Jorjani, who lately changed earlier Arrowhead CEO and present chief inventive officer Johan Pilestedt, tweeted to name for it to remain.
can we please, please preserve this? @ArrowheadGS https://t.co/a57PMZ4JtT
— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) July 8, 2024
While emote free-falling is meme worthy now, what could be higher for Helldivers 2 long-term is a extra life like mechanic that lets gamers scale back fall injury in-universe. Perhaps there’s sure armor that might assist, or gear that provides you a parachute or one thing related. Yet one other mechanic to probably add to Arrowhead’s lengthy listing of upcoming Helldivers 2 content material.
we’ll add inflatable bouncy luggage that deploy from underneath your arm pits or some shit if we’ve got to. c’mon! we’ve got the know-how – the place there is a will there is a method!
— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) July 8, 2024
This is not the primary time Helldivers 2 gamers have found unintended emote gameplay. Soon after the PC and PlayStation 5 co-op shooter got here out earlier this 12 months, gamers found that if one Helldiver used the protect generator pack to guard from sustaining injury from explosives, they might hug emote one other participant to share the protect. Wholesome!
Helldivers 2 is the fastest-selling PlayStation sport of all time, having shifted an unimaginable 12 million copies in simply 12 weeks. Amid the large income Helldivers 2 has generated, Arrowhead itself has suffered various crises, together with launch server issues and a battle with Sony itself over the console maker’s controversial try to pressure Steam gamers to account hyperlink to PlayStation Network.
Arrowhead lately revealed it was within the strategy of setting the studio up so it may “make extra and higher stuff” within the long-term. In an introductory post on reddit, Jorjani mentioned the studio has needed to regulate to the large success Helldivers 2 has delivered to the corporate.
Image credit score: reddit / Chunke-Funke-Monke.
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